3-TIER E-COMP: A NOVEL E-COMMERCE MANAGEMENT PORTAL BASED ON SECURED SDLC APPROACH
Okafor N. I, Kennedy Chinedu Okafor, C C Udeze, I. M. Onwusuru, F N Ugwoke · 2013
In today’s business world, there is an urgent need to develop a new approach for customer to business owner transactions securely. This research develops, implements, and discussed a novel 3 – Tier E-Commerce Management portal. This makes online business very flexible and secured on the part of business owners and customers. Our proposed system seeks to replace the conventional E-commerce models on the internet today. We argue that process logic manipulation using Secured Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLCM) on Ecommerce platform is a promising scheme for studying and understanding script processing on the new web paradigms. In this research, we define security calculus for 3 Tier EComP with the aim of eradicating SQL injection possibilities as well as exploiting Software as a service in a dynamic Ecommerce domain. Also, we developed a new access hierarchy for E-commerce comprising of Application layer users, designated administrator and super administrators in the 3 – Tier EComP. We developed a new encryption scheme based on XAMP MD5 Random Curve Cryptography (XMD5 – RCC) running on Secure Socket Layer (SSL) which protects the user and administrators on the Ecommerce platform. The result of encryption scheme randomly generates and secures the login details dynamically on the server during the authentication and authorization phases. The programming was accomplished with PhP, and MySQL Server. The overall methodology as detailed in the body of the work could serve as good template for application developers and other researchers.